Just my small contribution :
I am brazilian living in France and duly authorized Ham in this
country.
I am a reader of the magazine which published the article which
shares a strong reputation in France among the news in this area.
So far I have not seen any attitude neither from Mehahertz magazine
neither from Icom France to deny such an article.
The article appears in the same area dedicated to talk about near
future products every month.
Icom France has had enough time to deny this information but have
not done so. I personnaly contacted Icom France for two reasons :
1st for the new VHF HT radio that was coming out at the time and was
given the availabity date which proved to be correct, and 2nd for
the IC-7000. No prospects were available according to the ham branch
responsible but I was told the product would be seen by the end of
the semester/beginning of the second one.
I do think it is very weird not to hear concrete information in
markets such as US and others (France counts with almost 20000 Hams)
but who knows for sure ?
Let's hope it will really come at the time announced.
Eduardo - F/PU2VGA
